CVE-2025-52890 HIGH

CVE-2025-52890: Incus vulnerable to antispoofing nftables firewall rule bypass on bridge networks with ACLs

Vendor Lxc
Product incus
Weakness CWE-863 · Incorrect authorization
Published June 25, 2025
Last update June 25, 2025

CVSS base score

8.1/10
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. When using an ACL on a device connected to a bridge, Incus versions 6.12 and 6.13generates nftables rules that partially bypass security options `security.mac_filtering`, `security.ipv4_filtering` and `security.ipv6_filtering`. This can lead to ARP spoofing on the bridge and to fully spoof another VM/container on the same bridge. Commit 254dfd2483ab8de39b47c2258b7f1cf0759231c8 contains a patch for the issue.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 25, 2025 CVE published
June 25, 2025 Record updated